error message in yum when updating
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at mindspring.com
Tue May 23 10:45:58 UTC 2006
On Tue, 23 May 2006, Jared Buck wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Have been using FC5 for a couple of weeks now. When i updated this
> evening, yum grabbed all the new packages, and then when it grabbed
> the headers to pack into transaction set, yum suddenly stopped
> operating and gave me this message:
>
> cups conflicts foomatic <3.2.33-3
>
> What does this message mean and what do i do to fix it so i can have
> yum update all the packages? I'm fairly compentent with Linux but
> have never had this error message occur before.
i *just* went thru that. turns out that i had two versions of
foomatic installed. just *explicitly* "rpm -e" the older one and try
again. does that solve the problem?
rday
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